Witness claims that Karen reportedly read, “said she hit the police with her car ‘
An important witness took the position for a second day in the Karen Reader Rolding and her witness shocked the courtroom.
Witness Jennifer McCabe testified that he reads reading repeatedly: “I hit him” to a first response after they discovered the lifeless body of her friend John O’Keefe in the snow, Radaronline.com can reveal.
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Read’s murder border started on April 28.
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Read is confronted with accusations of second -degree murder, manslaughter during the operation of a vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident that causes death. She is again at the court after jury members were unable to get a unanimous judgment in her first trial.
Justice officers claimed that reading intentionally O’Keefe, a police officer in Boston, with Lexus SUV on January 29, 2022, after an evening out in Canton, Massachusetts, and left him as a snowstorm approached.
Defense lawyers claimed that Read was the target of an injudemed investigation and the victim of a cover-up because they claimed that someone else killed the agent.
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Jennifer McCabe remembered that he was ‘Hysterical’ on the morning of O’Keefe, was discovered on her sister’s lawn.
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McCabe plays a central part in the case because of reading in a local bar in the hours prior to the death of O’Keefe, and the suspect was discovered when the officer’s body was discovered.
On Tuesday, April 29, McCabe witnessed that he saw Read’s SUV outside her sister’s house at 34 FairView Road, but said the suspect never came in. She said she’s o’keefe text to see if he came in and reading, where friends and family gathered after a visit to a local bar, but he never responded.
While she reminded herself of the fateful night, McCabe said that around 5 o’clock she received a phone call from O’Keefe’s niece and could hear read in the background.
The witness claimed that Read told her that she and O’Keefe had argued and that she had left him in the local bar, but he never came home.
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McCabe claimed that she was reading and told a first responder ‘I hit him’ after they found O’Keefe’s body.
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She then remembered that she told Read that she saw her car hours earlier in her sister’s house – and Read started to sob.
McCabe said, “And then she told me she didn’t remember she was there. And then she started saying – she started saying,” Did I have been able to hit him? Did I hit him? “
Read allegedly said McCabe that she had squatted her rear light earlier that night.
Shortly after the call, Read arrived at McCabe’s house. Together with a woman named Kerry Roberts, they drove to the house of McCabe’s sister in the Hope O’Keefe.
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When the group arrived at 34 FairView Road, the witness said read: “There he is, let me out” and left the car.
McCabe’s 911 was played in court and read could scream in the background.
She remembered, “Karen was hysterical, irrational. She shouts a lot and asks,” Is he dead, he is dead, he is dead. ”
“She was just a bit everywhere.”
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Read is not guilty of accusations of second -degree murder.
At Cross Exercise, the defense lawyers of Read McCabe’s connections tried to emphasize with the police, including her brother -in -law Brian Albert, a police officer in Boston who owned the house at 34 FairView Road.
Lawyer Alan Jackson tried to acknowledge McCabe that after the body of O’Keefe, the police did not separate potential witnesses before they made their statements.
McCabe claimed that she did not need the witnesses to be separated, most of which were family members.
